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Life and Death Of Coral Reefs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 564

Life and Death Of Coral Reefs

Illustrated throughout, this book presents what is known about factors that "shift the balance" between accretion and erosion, recruitment and mortality, stony corals and filamentous algae, recovery and degradation - the life and death of coral reefs.

What is Natural?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

What is Natural?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

During the late 1960s and 1970s, massive herds of poisonous crown-of-thorns starfish suddenly began to infest coral reef communities around the world, leaving in their wake devastation comparable to a burnt-out rainforest. In What is Natural?, Jan Sapp both examines this ecological catastrophe and captures the intense debate among scientists about what caused the crisis, and how it should be handled. The crown-of-thorns story takes readers on tropical expeditions around the world, and into both marine laboratories and government committees, where scientists rigorously search for answers to the many profound questions surrounding this event. Were these fierce starfish outbreaks the kind of ma...

Life and Death of Coral Reefs
  • Language: en

Life and Death of Coral Reefs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05-14
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  • Publisher: Springer

Charles Birkeland Living coral is a thin veneer, measured in millimeters. Yet this thin film of living tissue has shaped the face of the Earth by creating limestone structures sometimes over 1,300 m thick from the surface down to its base on volcanic rock (Enewetak Atoll), or over 2,000 km long (Great Barrier Reef). About half the world's coastlines are in the tropics and about a third of the tropical coastlines are made of coral reef. Archipelagoes of hundreds of atolls such as the Marshalls, the Maldives, the Tuamotus, and most of the Carolines and Kiribati have been fonned by coral. In addition to enlarging high islands (such as the entire northern end of Guam) and extending and protectin...

Acanthaster Planci
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

Acanthaster Planci

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990-09-24
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

The purpose of this book is to provide an organized compilation of information and techniques for all aspects of the biology and management of the Acanthaster planci species. This extraordinary coral predator has greater effects on coral reef communities than any other animal species. It can cause mortality of hard corals over large areas and have indirect effects that extend through the trophic levels of the reef community. This volume features A planci as an animal with a unique combination of morphological, physiological, and life history characteristics that contribute to its potential for major ecological impacts. It provides detailed techniques for disparate aspects of research and man...

Scientists-in-the-sea
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 636

Scientists-in-the-sea

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1972
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Manned Undersea Science and Technology Program; Report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 88
The State of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States, 2002
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278
Hearings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2210

Hearings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1972
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Biology, Ecology and Management of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Biology, Ecology and Management of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-04-03
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  • Publisher: MDPI

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Biology, Ecology and Management of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish" that was published in Diversity

The State of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280